Dec 10 | Lunch and Learn with Gabriela García-Luna
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
12:30 to 1:30 PM
Free | Online | Zoom link provided upon registration
About the Program
Take your lunch break with us and join a free online talk with Gabriela García-Luna, featured artist from the Varley Art Gallery’s fall exhibition Sights of Convergence. This session offers insight into García-Luna’s creative process and current work.
About the Artist
Gabriela García-Luna is a multimedia artist living in Treaty Six Territory, Saskatoon born in Mexico City. Her lens-based practice blends analogue and digital media through photography, drawing, printmaking, video and installation to speak of imprinted memory, sense of place and identity. Her work of semi-abstract and hybrid qualities addresses ideas of fragility and resilience, unity and separation, presence and absence, and beauty and decay, through the investigation of the botanical world in the places she has called home – Mexico, India and Canada.
García-Luna’s work has been exhibited in multiple solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, UK and India. She has received grants and awards from FONCA (National Foundation for Culture and Art Fellowship in Mexico, The Saskatchewan Arts Board and Canada Council of the Arts among others. Her work is part of public and private collections: Galería Libertad, Colección Omnilife, TD Bank, Saskatchewan Arts Board, MacKenzie Art Gallery and Global Affairs Canada. She holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a BDes from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in Mexico City.
About the Exhibition
Sights of Convergence features work by Jess Riva Cooper (Toronto, ON), Gabriela García-Luna (Saskatoon, SK), and Stanzie Tooth (Toronto, ON). Each artist brings a distinct material practice and set of concerns to their work, yet all explore the intimate entanglement of human and natural worlds. Rather than treating nature as a passive backdrop, their works invite us to consider a more nuanced, reciprocal exchange, one shaped by perception, memory, and lived experience. Beneath the surface, unsettling realities emerge: anxiety, tension, loss, and the shadow of ecological catastrophe. In this shared space, the gallery becomes a meeting ground, where diverse expressions converge and conversations between works and ideas can take root, grow, and expand.
